To demonstrate what they're shooting for, the developers showed us a mashup video containing various clips they use as inspiration for Conviction's development: The Bourne Identity, Die Hard, The Fugitivej 24.pretty good source material, if you ask us. Now, you need to move-you need to be more reactive to the environment." This is a major difference from previous Splinter Cells, where you could wait in the dark forever and be in a safe zone. He's always on his toes, watching his back. "He has to find new ways of mastering this new situation by himself, to find new gadgets, find new contacts and such. Well, maybe it is, for all intents and purposes, a whole new game: "As a fugitive, Sam is losing all this comfort," says Ferland. At some point, Sam will discover who's chasing him and why-and at this point, he will reverse the situation and be the predator and not the prey." So he'll turn to a fugitive, and he'll be hunted by those who have been betraying him for all these years. He discovers that everything is dysfunctional-it's not working as it used to-and at some point, Sam will have to do something that will be perceived as very bad, even if it's not. "The high-level story after Double Agent," says Ferland, "is two years have passed, and there's something that goes wrong with an old friend of Sam's, and he decides to go back to Third Echelon Splinter Cell's top-secret arm of the National Security Agency. Otherwise, it'll seem forced-or, perhaps, feel like a whole new, different game. For the first time since the original Splinter Cell, we're changing the core mechanics, the core gameplay."īut from a fiction point of view, you can't just muck up the gameplay without good reason. We decided to change, to renew the brand. We thought that the gameplay was a bit repetitive over time. "You were given orders, you were told what to do-it was a very cool experience, but this has created a lack of differentiation between each game. "We realized that with the previous Splinter Cells.there was a lack of emotional attachment with the characters," says Senior Producer Mathieu Ferland. Let's look at this new game from the developer's perspective and from a gameplay point of view-then we'll let you know what we think. So Double Agent, despite still being a great game, ended up being more of the same: more hiding in the dark, more climbing up pipes, and more sneaking up on no-do-gooders from behind and putting them down for an extended naptime.Ĭonviction, however, is running with the idea of a "franchise reinvention" so fast that you may not even recognize it as a Splinter Cell game. Sure, Fisher spent some time in jail in that fourth chapter of the stealthy series, but it was only for one half-baked level (as a "prisoner," he still had some of his high-tech gadgets, for chrissakes). But Splinter Cell: Double Agent didn't deliver on that unspoken promise. After all, you don't show our favorite government secret agent in a mug shot unless you're planning on flipping the script inside out. And let’s all go ahead and prepare ourselves for disappointment at the lack of a mainline Splinter Cell game.THE FAMILIAR SLEEK BLACK CATSUIT and all-purpose vision headgear (with the famous, iconic three glowing green circles) were nowhere to be seen, replaced by a Creamsicle-orange prison jumpsuit and 5 o'clock (plus overtime) shadow-Sam Fisher seemed to be in for a franchise reinvention. Expect another look at Rainbow Six Quarantine (or whatever they end up calling it now), Far Cry 6, and more. We’ll be getting a much clearer look at what Ubisoft’s future looks like during their Ubisoft Forward Event on June 12. Ubisoft has said recently they are looking to release more “high-quality free-to-play games across all our biggest franchises across all platforms.” But the statement is more of an “and” not an “instead.” Premium game releases are still a major pillar for the publisher, and the broader focus on free-to-play games won’t impact the number of premium titles in the future, according to the publisher. Is BattleCat one of these free-to-play games Ubisoft plans to release? They also say development is very early and that the game will not be making an appearance at this week’s Ubisoft Forward event. VGC reports the images seen in the Twitter thread are the real deal, and ‘BattleCat’ is a first-person shooter coming to consoles and PC. Zer0Bytes says the game began testing back in January. This isn’t the Splinter Cell game we’ve all been hoping for, but at this point – I’ll take any damn thing I can get my hands on.
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